Household Food Consumption Survey 1955

Excerpt from Food Consumption and Dietary Levels of Households in the United States: Some Highlights From the Household Food Consumption Survey, Spring 1955 This report presents in summary form some of the findings of a recent nationwide household food consumption survey that are of particular interest to home economists, nutritionists, and economists studying consumption. The survey was made in april-june 1955 by the Agricultural Research Service and the Agricultural Marketing Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The work was conducted in the Agricultural Research Service by the Household Economics Research Division and in the Agricultural Marketing Service by the Market Development Branch and the Statistical and Historical Research Branch. The data were collected and tabulated by National Analysts, Inc under contract with the Department. The 1955 survey is part of the Department's broad program of research on the market ing and utilization of farm products and on family dietary levels. Based on a national probability sample of about housekeeping households of one or more persons, it is the most comprehensive food consumption survey yet undertaken. A detailed description of the sample design and its appraisal are presented in the first of a series of published reports on this survey. (for list of published reports see back cover.) Housekeeping households were defined as those in which at least one member had 10 or more meals from home food supplies during the week preceding the interview. Trained interviewers obtained information, usually from the homemaker, on the number of meals eaten at home and away from home by each individual in the household, expenditures for food eaten away from home, quantities of all food items used at home during the 7 days preceding the interview and expenditures for the purchased items, selected household food practices during the previous year, and various family characteristics, such as income, needed for classification of the data. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.